It's time to turn the Nassau party over to younger leadership. The party base is older, creaky and the arteries are getting harder for the heart to pump.

because he can't get his own party to support him.

Look, it's a tumultuous, challenging time for the party. That simply means that the leadership of the party has to be up to that challenge.

They said how important it is for our party, how important it is for the leadership.

First off, you have to have a good relationship with your party leadership and then you need to have good relationships with your colleagues in the House on both sides of the aisle. I plan on doing both of those things.

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the party stands for, which can be communicated to a large number of people only by media, especially TV, becomes a more important factor.